Ferndale maintained a 24-10 advantage despite the drop in performance, still, the almost sleep-walking effort in the second quarter was disconcerting.

”They haven’t played for more than a week and they got complacent,” Ferndale head coach Kristie Christiansen said of her players. “They didn’t feel challenged, and, our girls like to be challenged. As a team, they want to be challenged.”

So the head coach provided one.

”At halftime, coach was telling us the great teams, when ever they are down and not doing their best, they kick it up,” Earley said.

The Wildcats delivered sweet chin music in the last two quarters scoring a combined 32 points while yielding only 16.

”We ran the offense better in the second half because the defense was stepping up getting rebounds and that allowed our transition game to work,” Christiansen said.